United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov expresses concern over the stoning of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah’s convoy last week.
“The stoning attack on Palestinian Prime Minister Hamdallah’s convoy on Christmas is a very worrying incident,” Mladenov says in a statement. “It is absolutely unacceptable and the perpetrators must be brought to justice. Stones can kill — it was at the same spot that, Aisha al-Rabi, lost her life in October. Such violence must stop immediately.”
Hamdallah’s convoy was stoned in the early morning of December 25 in the northern West Bank near the Tapuach junction, leaving two in his entourage wounded, according to Yousef Mahmoud, a PA government spokesman.
An Israeli Defense official confirmed Hamdallah’s convoy was stoned, but said only one person was injured in the incident.
Aisha al-Rabi was killed in October after a stone blew threw the windshield of a car she was traveling in near the Tapuach junction and hit her.
— Adam Rasgon
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, right, and United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov meet at PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ former official residence in Gaza City, on October 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Prime Minister Office)
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